212 years ago · 1814

“The instructions to those plenipotentiaries, disclosing the grounds on which they were authorized to negotiate and conclude a treaty of peace, will be the subject of another…”

— James Madison

167 years ago · 1859

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

— Abraham Lincoln

138 years ago · 1888

“Every intelligent man should be charged with the knowledge that as a general rule commercial intercourse with the enemy is entirely inconsistent with a state of war.”

— Grover Cleveland